wed 21/05/2025

Sarah Kent

Sarah Kent's picture
Bio
Sarah was the visual arts editor art of Time Out, the ICA’s Director of Exhibitions, has served on Turner Prize and other juries, and has written catalogues for the Hayward, ICA, Saatchi Gallery, White Cube and Haunch of Venison and books such as Shark-Infested Waters: The Saatchi Collection of British Art in the 90s.

Articles By Sarah Kent

Red Star Over Russia, Tate Modern review – fascinating history in a nutshell

Read more...

Ilya and Emilia Kabakov, Tate Modern review – funny, moving and revelatory

Read more...

Basquiat: Boom for Real, Barbican review - the myth explored

Read more...

Rachel Whiteread, Tate Britain review – exceptional beauty

Read more...

Final Portrait review - utterly convincing portrayal of an artist at work

Read more...

Trajal Harrell: Hoochie Koochie, Barbican review - flamboyant and mesmerising

Read more...

Rose Finn-Kelcey: Life, Belief and Beyond, Modern Art Oxford review - revelation and delight

Read more...

Portraying a Nation, Tate Liverpool review – an inspired juxtaposition

Read more...

The Seasons in Quincy: Four Portraits of John Berger review - voyages round a giant

Read more...

Fahrelnissa Zeid, Tate Modern review - rediscovering a forgotten genius

Read more...

A Handful of Dust, Whitechapel Gallery review - grime does pay

Read more...

Grayson Perry: The Most Popular Art Exhibition Ever! Serpentine Gallery

Read more...

Geta Bratescu, Camden Arts Centre

Read more...

Mary Magdalene: Art's Scarlet Woman, review - 'lugubrious'

Read more...

How To Be a Surrealist with Philippa Perry, review - 'exhilarating'

Read more...

DVD: Revolution - New Art for a New World

Read more...

Pages

latest in today

Help to give theartsdesk a future!

It all started on 09/09/09. That memorable date, September 9 2009, marked the debut of theartsdesk.com.

It followed some...

The Fifth Step, Soho Place review - wickedly funny two-hande...

The plays of David Ireland have a tendency to build to an explosion, after long stretches of caustic dialogue and very funny banter....

Josefowicz, LSO, Mälkki, Barbican review - two old favourite...

Every now and then a concert programme comes along that fits like a bespoke suit, and this one could have been specially designed for me. Two...

Mr Swallow: Show Pony, Richmond Theatre review - magic trick...

Nick Mohammed invented his Mr Swallow character – camp, lisping, with an inflated ego and the mistaken belief that he has creative...

The Great Escape Festival 2025, Brighton review - a feast of...

Photographer Finetime and I have our first pints outside Dalton’s, a bar on...

Parsifal, Glyndebourne review - the music flies up, the dram...

There’s a grail, but it doesn't glow in a mundane if perverted Christian ritual. Three of the main characters have young and old actor versions...

The Bombing of Pan Am 103, BBC One review - new dramatisatio...

The appalling destruction of Pan Am’s flight 103 over Lockerbie in 1988 was put under the spotlight in January this year in Sky Atlantic’s ...

Ballet to Broadway: Wheeldon Works, Royal Ballet review - th...

Ballet is hardly a stranger to Broadway. Until the late 1950s every other musical had its fantasy ballet sequence – think Cyd Charisse in ...

Album: Robert Forster - Strawberries

“Tell me what you see” invites Robert Forster during Strawberries' “Tell it Back to me.” The album’s eight songs do not, however,...

Music Reissues Weekly: Chapterhouse - White House Demos

Quoted in an early music press article on his band Chapterhouse, singer-guitarist Stephen Patman said their ambition was “to have our records on...